Reference

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky, edited by Laura Kuhn; Schirmer Books; 1997.

The International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003; Europa Publications; 2003

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, edited by Laura Macy; MacMillan; 2001

The Oxford Companion To Music, edited by Alison Latham; Oxford University Press; 2002.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music, edited by Michael Kennedy; Oxford University Press; second edition 1994.


Dissertations

Hanol Baek / Michigan State University: "Lowell Liebermann’s “Nocturnal” Evolution from Piano Sonata No.2, Op.10 “Sonata-Notturna” to Nocturne No.11, Op.112"; 2019.

Adam Clark / University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music: "Modern Marvels: A Pedagogical Guide to Lowell Liebermann's Album for the Young Op.43"; 2008.

Hsiao-Ling Chang / University of North Texas: "Lowell Liebermann's Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 12: An Historical and Analytical Study"; 2010.

Jeannine Dennis / University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music: "The Life And Music Of Lowell Liebermann With An Emphasis On His Music For The Flute And Piccolo"; 1999.

Yanbing Dong / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "The Imagery of Evil in Modern Piano Works: Exploring the Diabolical Elements in N. Lincoln Hanks' "Monstre Sacre" and Lowell Liebermann's "Gargoyles""; 2017.

Lisa Garner / Rice University: "Lowell Liebermann: A Stylistic Analysis and Discussion of the Sonata For Flute and Piano, Op.23, Sonata for Flute and Guitar, Op.25 and Soliloquy for Flute Solo, Op.44"; 1997

Christie Glaser / California State University-Long Beach: "The Liebermann Piccolo Concerto and Its Stylistic Elements"; 2014

Milena Gligic / University of Maryland: “Unusual Soundscapes: Chamber Ensembles of the Twentieth Century and Beyond Involving the Collaborative Pianist”; 2017

Margaret Ellen Halbig / University of California, Santa Barbara: “The Flute, Cello, Piano Trios of Lowell Liebermann”; 2011

Ann Marie DuHamel / University of Iowa: "Magical, dissonant, fantastic beauty: the solo piano nocturnes of Lowell Liebermann"; 2014.

Martin Harvey / West Virginia University: "The Eleven Nocturnes for Solo Piano of Lowell Liebermann: A Field-Chopin-Faure Lineage"; 2013

Pamela Joy Hatton / University of Colorado-Boulder: "The presence of the past: intertextuality and structural remaking in Lowell Liebermann's Variations on a Theme by Anton Bruckner"; 2013

Andrea Isaacson / The University of Oklahoma: "The Piano Sonatas of Lowell Liebermann: A Performer's Analysis"; 2015

Hansol Kang / The University of Texas at Austin: "Imagery in Lowell Liebermann's opus 29 'Gargoyles' for piano: Interval-ratio generation through multi-tonal articulations"; 2016.

Karen S. Kenaston / University of North Texas: "An Approach to the Critical Evaluation of Settings of the Poetry of Walt Whitman: Lowell Liebermann's Symphony No. 2"; 2003

Mayumi Kikuchi / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "The Piano Works Of Lowell Liebermann: Compositional Aspects In Selected Works"; 1999.

Ji Young Lee / University of Cincinnatti: "A Style Study of Sergei Rachmaninoff's and Lowell Liebermann's Rhapsodies on a Theme of Paganini"; 2015.

Meng-Hua Lin / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "A stylistic analysis of piano sonatas by Lowell Liebermann"; 2015.

Marek Lipiec / I J Paderewski Academy of Music, Posnan, Poland: “Dialectical concept of Lowell Liebermann’s musical language - coincidentia oppositorum in selected chamber works”; 2019

Lisa McArthur / University of Kentucky: "Lowell Liebermann: His Compositional Style As Derived From Three Flute Works And Applied To Other Selected Instrumental Works"; 1999.

Jessica Murdoch / University of Northern Colorado: “Night music: The twentieth century nocturne in piano teaching”; 2012

Dean Alan Nichols / University of Kentucky: "A Survey of the Piano Works of Lowell Liebermann"; 2000.

Samuel Nordlund / The University of Alabama: "Motive and Form in Lowell Liebermann's four Sonatas for violoncello and piano"; 2016.

Tracy O’Donnell / National University of Ireland, Maynooth: “The Piano Compositions of Lowell Liebermann”; 2006

Kathryn L. Rice / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "Tonal Procedures in Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra"; 2017.

Amanda Taylor / Florida State University: “An Exploration of Late Twentieth Century American Flute and Guitar Works with Emphasis on Robert Beaser’s Mountain Songs and Lowell Liebermann’s Sonata for Flute and Guitar”; 2016

Annalee Whitehead / University of Maryland: “A Global Sampling of Piano Music from 1978 to 2005” 2011

Brian J. Winegardner / University of Miami: "A Performer's Guide to Concertos for Trumpet and Orchestra by Lowell Liebermann and John Williams"; 2011.

Tomoko Uchino / The University of Arizona: "An Analysis of Three Impromptus Op.68 by Lowell Liebermann"; 2007.

Wen-Hui Yu / University of Northern Colorado: "A Stylistic Analysis of Piano Concerto No.2,Op.36 By Lowell Liebermann"; 2003.


Selected Newspaper and Magazine Articles

 

 

A Composer from 13 by Robert Rimm, International Piano, January/February 2006

After the best by Bryce Morrison, Gramaphone, September 1997

Back to The Future by Terry Teachout, Time Magazine, Vol. 155 No.9, 3/6/00

Bringing Tonality, and Fans, to Contemporary Music by K. Robert Schwarz, The New York Times, 1/31/99

Commissioned Opera Receives Premiere by David Pratt, The Juilliard Journal, Vol. XXI No. 7 April 2006

Flutespeak: Composer Lowell Liebermann by Lisa Garner, The Flutist Quarterly, Volume XXIV No.2, Winter 1999

Lauding Lowell by Katherine Kemler, The Flutist Quarterly, Volume 47, No.1, Fall 2021

Liebermann takes music personally by Bill Rice, The Albany Gazette, 7/21/00

Lowell Liebermann by Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone, Volume 93, May 2016

Lowell Liebermann, composer by A.M. Homes, Contents, No.15

Lowell Liebermann's Album for the Young, Op.43: A fresh approach to classical teaching literature by Sara Evans, Clavier Companion, January/February 2009

Lowell Liebermann's Approach To Writing Music for the Flute A Converstion with the composer by Jan Gippo, Flute Talk, Volume 20, No.7 March 2001

Miss Lonelyhearts Sings by Arlo McKinnon, Opera News, April 2006

Natural Born Composer: Lowell Liebermann, Accent, Volume 47, Fall 2002

The New Tonalists by Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine, December 1997

Old-fashioned modernist by Olin Chism, The Dallas Morning News, 2/21/99

Only the lonely by James Gavin, Time Out New York, Issue 551, April 20-26, 2006

Opera USA by Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine, July-August 1999

Piccolo Takes Centerstage by Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11/1/98

Schubert, Liszt and other “Personal Demons”: In Conversation with the Composer of Gargoyles by Asher Armstrong, American Music Teacher, April/May 2021

Three Impromptus by Liebermann by Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Clavier Magazine, September 2002